Quotes About Parenting

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.